Located in Goosport near the site
of the home and lumber mill of Captain Daniel Johannes Goos
(pronounced like goss) and his wife, Katherine Barbara Moeling Goos, the Goos
Cemetery was established for their descendants. Around the
turn of the twentieth century, it was endowed by one of their
daughters and her husband, Captain George and Ellen Goos Lock,
and is maintained by the Goosport Graveyard Endowment
Corporation. The earliest graves date from the 1870s. In 1987,
it was designated a historic landmark by the Calcasieu
Preservation Society.

Capt. Goos was born in 1815 on the
Isle of Föhr, one of the Friesian Islands in the North Sea. In
1835 he emigrated through Philadelphia and settled in New
Orleans. There he met Katarina Barbara Moeling, who had come
in 1840 with her family from Neustadt an der Weinstraße,
Germany. They were married in 1846 and soon moved to the
Mississippi Gulf Coast where he engaged in the mercantile
business.

In 1855 they moved to Lake Charles,
where he established his sawmill and shipping business,
building schooners to transport his lumber to Galveston. These
were to be used to run the Union Blockade during the Civil
War. However, after the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the injured,
both Southern and Northern, were taken to his home and nursed
to recovery. He was instrumental in other German immigrants
coming to Lake Charles to work in his mill. In Lake Charles,
he was a founder of the Lutheran Church and the Masonic Lodge.
North Lake Charles became known as Goosport, and many streets
bear the names of his family: Moeling, Katherine, Madora,
Fitzenreiter Road, and Goos Boulevard.

Goos Cemetery is located in north
Lake Charles. From Broad Street (old U. S. Highway 90), go
north on Shattuck Street 1.4 miles until it curves around the
cemetery.

In 2003, the
Endowment purchased a tract
of property on Joe Miller
Road in Moss Bluff,
Louisiana. Goos Cemetery
– Moss Bluff has been developed, and the first burial there
was on January 25, 2011. Joe
Miller Road intersects with
U.S. Highway 171 in northern
Moss Bluff.